Taman Negara in Boards and Stamps

Our final component of our Nature Series is to present a topic related to Taman Negara in Presentation Boards, and also First-Day Stamps to promote awareness about nature. Fyi, presentation boards are a phase of an architect's life. And we're about to get a taste of it this assignment.

This assignment will be done as groups. Hence, I teamed up with Jun, John, Ibraheim and Keshav. Interesting fact : each of us came from totally distinct and different locations around and abroad Malaysia. How cool was that?

My group - The International Honeybees (because according to Jun, Honeybees are natural architects, which is true!)

We are required to choose a topic based on a significant feature or phenomenon of Taman Negara. So after discussion and research, we decided that Bioluminescent Fungi was our topic because glow-in-the-dark phenomenon usually occurs in the rainforest, which was a damp and dark environment, feasible for this species to grow.

And off we worked for our assignment!

Our presentation day had finally arrived. And that's when we found out how our classmates had been doing with their boards. Theirs were professional, I had to admit, in fact, more professional and better than ours. Each of us knew we're doomed. But still, we decided to continue and do our best to the end. We needed to save this assignment.

This is our presentation boards and stamps:

My Taman Negara Scrapbook from Carmen Chan

Our presentation:

We had a critique session from the panel after that (again, critique sessions are a phase of an architect's life, up to this day, I still cringe and my heart still aches from the comments on my/group's work). As expected, our group's work was obviously not up to par with the others, and even so, we were way far behind in our presentation. However, they commended us for our knowledge on the topic, our verbal presentation, and the interest and attraction of our topic. Nevertheless, we're still unable to translate our topic into visuals.

1. It was a bittersweet progress. Explaining my work visually was still a challenge for me. But I really need to learn how to do it. I need practise. *Back to pinterest where all the inspiration comes*
2. Besides, workmanship is also important in each assignment. The way the alphabets are aligned, the fonts need to be the same, the colours need to match. All these tiny details can make a large impact on your work.
3. Finally, teamwork. A group assignment really requires a lot of teamwork to be successful. One big mistake we committed was that we did our boards individually. Because of that, our workmanship was greatly affected.

Now that my teammates and I have learnt our lessons. We shall move on. And continue to improve on ourselves! Besides, we're there for each other right up to the end.